president obama appeared in one, hillary clinton as well. in your view is that a waste of time and money. >> because it's coming so late in the conversation, absolutely it's a waste of time and money. this is not is going to work when you react to violence that's already taken place in the street. what the state department needs to do, what the administration needs do is to be part of the conversation all the time. pakistanis -- >> how do you do that? >> there are many ways of communicating and there's large budgets the state department has at their disposal. pakistanis shouldn't hear just from the obama administration after something like this has taken place. the united states is spending billions of dollars in aid in pakistan. pakistanis should be hearing about that pretty often, about all the good work that the united states does. when the pakistani receives something directly or indirectly that comes from american aid they should know about it and quite often they don't. so, yes, you want to do damage control. i understand the urge to d